14 MAY 1904, page 4

The Surprise Of The Continent. Defeat By " The Black

Flags " in 1883 is forgotten, and Indo-China seems to the world to have been acquired without any serious fighting. Lastly, the " Boxer " uprising in China was put down without......

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MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S SPEECH. M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at Birmingham dis- poses finally of all the foolish talk about his being willing, nay, anxious, to give up his fiscal......